people
plurality of persons considered as a whole, from a government or historical perspective
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Summary
people ranks in the top 0.93% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,410 views/month, #725 of 77,819).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: social group[2], group of humans[3]
- Said to be the same as: nation[4], general public[5]
- Has part(s): human[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Peoples[7]
- Described by source: Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[8], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11]
- Partially coincident with: peoples[12]
- Has characteristic: ethnicity[13]
- Different from: Volkstum[14], lower order people[15], ethnic group[16], human[17], Povo[18], ethnos[19], nation[20], Falk[21], state[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
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Influence
Things named for people include renminbi[24], a currency[25], in People's Republic of China[26]; SMAP[27], a boy band[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1988[30]; and Narodni trg[31], a square[32], in Croatia[33].
Why It Matters
people has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] people is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]
Entities named for people include renminbi[24], a currency[25], in People's Republic of China[26]; SMAP[27], a boy band[28], in Japan[29], founded in 1988[30]; and Narodni trg[31], a square[32], in Croatia[33].